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FIRST READING 1 Samuel 26:2.7-9. 12-13.22-23
The Lord has put you in my power, but I will not raise my hand against you.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
SALMO RESPONSORIALE
The Lord is kind and merciful.
Il Signore e’ buono e grande nell’amore.
ST JOSEPH THE WORKER
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NORTH RESERVOIR _________________________________________
79 Wilson Boulevard, North Reservoir 3073
Parish House Tel: 9460 3013 Fax: 9460 8832
E-mail: [email protected]
www.stjosephtheworker.org.au
1 Corinthians 15:45-49
Just as we have carried the earthly image, we must carry the heavenly image.
SECOND
SECOND READING
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
CANTO AL
AL VANGELO
Alleluia, alleluia! I give you a new commandment: love
one another as I have loved you. Alleluia!
Alleluia, alleluia. Vi do un
comandamento nuovo, dice il Signore:
che vi amiate a vicenda, come io ho
amato voi. Alleluia!
GOSPEL Luke 6:27-38
SUNDAY MASS TIMES:
Sat 6.00pm - English
Sun. 9.00am - Italian
Sun. 10.30am - English
Fr Max Vodola –Parish Priest
Fr Burns Huggan – Assistant Priest
Sr Doreen Bentley-Pastoral Associate
Mr Peter Chowne - School Principal
Maltese Mass
1st Saturday of the Month
WEEKDAY MASS TIMES:
Mon. Communion Service
Tue. 10.00am Italian
Wed. 9.10am - English
Thur. 9.10am - English
Fri. 9.10am - English
Sat. 8.30am-English
Be merciful as your Father is merciful.
THANKS TO THOSE WHO GAVE LAST WEEK
st
1 Collection
2nd Collection
- Thanksgiving Offering……………………..$ 1182.00
- Loose Money……………………………... $ 300.00
- Presbytery/Priests………………………… $ 329.00
LECTORS - THIS WEEK
18/02
18/02/
/02/07
SPECIAL MINISTERS
6.00pm (SAT) – L & M Dal Santo
9.00am (SUN) – P Sparano & C Agostinelli
10.30am (SUN) – G Silvio & R Gravina
S Dakin
P Leggiero, A Sonza & R Terzino
C McMahon & U Strangis
LECTORS
LECTORS – NEXT WEEK 25/02
25/02/0
/02/07
/07
SPECIAL
SPECIAL MINISTERS
6.00pm (SAT) – G Canavan & E Saliba
9.00am (SUN) – L & L Cavedon
10.30am (SUN) - G Donnini & M Sernia
N Ziino
S. Lobartolo, A De Cata, L Calafiore
J & J Kearney
CHURCH CLEANERS
24/02/07 R DiGuglielmo, M Ricci & G Romano
MONEY COUNTERS
19/02/07 Ern Claridge, F Carabott, G Canavan & M Turnbull
26/02/07 P Cherubin, A Sinopoli & L Cavedon
YOUR PRAYERS ARE REQUESTED FOR THE FOLLOWING
RECENTLY
RECENTLY DECEASED
Rocco SCAVULLO
Raffaele PROCITTI (d. Italia – Zio di John Greco)
ANNIVERSARIES
Bruno ARENA, Maria VESCIO, Mario, Agostino, Concetta & Gesualdo GIRAMONDO,
Gregoria TERLATO, Gina DI DONATO, Tonino NAPOLETANO, Antonia & Antonio GRAHOR
Janes, Matteo & Maria ZELE, Vita CICITA, Vincenzo & Antonietta MONITTO,
Raffaele & Antonietta BONELLI, Francesco & Antonietta BONELLI, Laura & Pasquale MARIANI,
Lorenzo Rachele PACELLA, Costanza, Antonino & Giuseppe CARNOVALE
Baptisms – Sunday 12.00pm
Marriages - By Appointment
Reconciliation: Sat. 10.30am
7th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
February 18, 2007
What does Lent mean for us?
The season of Lent will start this week with the celebration of Ash Wednesday. So it is a good time to ask
ourselves what this traditional season of penance might mean for us nowadays.
One writer with a Protestant background, David Maddalena, has noted the fact that Lent has figured much
more in Catholic and Orthodox practice than it has in his own tradition. But he decided to give our
approach a trial. He recorded his experience. “Several years ago I followed a fast through the forty days
of Lent and found that it changed my view of Easter, and that it changed me. Fasting and meditating on
my weaknesses helped me grasp the intense significance of the crucifixion, and gave me a deep and
powerful longing for the resurrection, which then became joy on Easter Sunday.” Lent is a chance to
remember the darkness of the cross before the dawn of the resurrection. In the orthodox Church, Lent is
called the season of Bright Sadness, because it is a time of both celebration and mourning. Our Catholic
practice during Lent used to be quite severe. In earlier times it meant going without food until the evening
on every day in Lent except the Sundays. No meat was to be eaten until Easter. The term “Carnival”
came to be applied to the two or three days of last-minute relaxation before Ash Wednesday. The Latin
“Carne vale” means “Goodbye to meat”. Our Catholic approach to Lent became less stringent over the
years. Daily fasting was no longer required. Then the meatless days were limited to the Fridays of Lent.
In our time the meatless days have been further cut back to Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, which are
also days of fasting. Does this mean the Church has given up the idea of Lent being a time of penance? In
no way. What it does mean is that the Church realises that there may be other acts of penance more
realistic for us than eating fish, eggs or a vegetarian dish in place of meat, or having a light snack at lunch
and putting off our main meal of the day until the evening, something many folk do anyway. Going
without a favourite program on television could be a more genuine act of penance today than those that
used to be prescribed for the forty days of Lent. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday as days of fast and
abstinence remain useful signposts of the Lenten call to penance. But the Church is treating us as adults,
trusting us to recognise the need for penance throughout the other days of Lent as well and confident that
we will work out for ourselves what are genuine acts of penance in our day and age. One other thing to
keep in mind. As well as being a time of penance, Lent is a call to charity, to bring aid to those less
fortunate than ourselves. It is proper that at least some of our acts of penance are money-saving. They
can contribute to the wherewithal we have to aid those in need. Not that what we save financially through
our penance should be the limit of our giving. But the call to penance and the call to charity tie in nicely
with each other.
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MEMORIAL MASS
ASH WEDNESDAY MASSES
Wednesday 21 February
9 .10am – Mass in English and Italian
11.30am – School Mass
7.30pm – Mass in English
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fasting and Abstinence from meat. All
who have completed their eighteenth year and have not begun their sixtieth year are
bound to fast. All who have completed their fourteenth year are bound to abstain.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Stations of the Cross will be conducted every Friday evening during Lent commencing at 6.30pm in the
Church. It will be done in both English and Italian. All parishioners are warmly invited to come together
for this important time of prayer.
7.15AM
7.15AM MASS ON WEDNESDAYS DURING LENT
During the season of Lent there will be a special mid – week Mass on Wednesday at 7.15am. This is an
additional Mass and is being made available especially for those who work and can not attend Mass during
the week.
Friday 23 February at 7.30pm –
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Salvatore Costanzo (1 year)
Paola Salvo (1 month)
Rosa Magro ( d. Italy 1 month)
Sebastiana Forte (1 year)
ENROLMENTS FOR RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION
Enrolments for Religious instruction for the children of our parish attending government schools will
be held on the following dates in the parish meeting room.
Tuesday 20 February 4.00pm – 5.30pm
Wednesday 21 February 7.30pm – 9.00pm
For all enquiries regarding First Reconciliation, First Communion and Confirmation, please contact
Sr Doreen on 9460 3013.
ASSOCIAZIONE SAN GABRIELE DELL’ADDOLORATA
DELL’ADDOLORATA
Oggi Domenica 18 Febbraio 2007 nel monastero dei Padri Passionisti, Serpells Road
Templestowe.
Programma: 10.00am Recita del S. Rosario, 10.30am Santa Messa concelebrata da
Padre Gabriele Panetta proveniente dal Santuario di San Gabriele. La Santa Messa
sara cantata dalla corale di S. Antonio. Durante la Santa Messa ci sara’ Benedizione
dei malati.
A termine della celebrazione religiosa seguira’ il Picnic (BYO)
Durante la giornata vari oggetti Religiosi provenienti dal Santuario di S. Gabriele saranno in vendita.
Durante il pomeriggio ci saranno giochi vari per adulti e’ bambini.
4.00pm Rientro in chiesa per la benedizione.
Per informazioni rivolgersi a Renato e Lucia Catena 9460 4597.
150TH ANNIVERSAY OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY
LENTEN REFLECTION
REFLECTION PROGRAM
All parishioners are invited to a Lenten reflection Program every Thursday afternoon at 2.00pm in the
weekly chapel, starting on Thursday 1st March. This is a great opportunity for parishioners to reflect on the
Sunday readings during Lent and seek to come to a deeper understanding of how the Word of God can
touch our lives. This is done in a friendly and informal way which promotes common faith sharing.
Special Event
Chapel Tour and Reflection on Sunday 25 February at Ursula Frayne Chapel, 88 Nicholson St,
Fitzroy, from 2.00pm – 5.00pm.
For more information, ph: 9499 1577 or go to
www.mercysisters.org.au
MERCY COLLEGE
All parishioners are invited. If you have not come before, be assured that you will be made to feel very
welcome. For more information, please phone Fr Burns on 9460 3013 or Judy Kearney 9460 9139.
ITALIAN LADIES
LADIES
Mercy College, 760 Sydney Rd Coburg, is a year 7-12 Catholic College for young women in the
Mercy tradition. Enrolments now open for 2008 and limited vacancies for 2007. For further
information : Ph: 9319 9299 Fax: 9354 9232 Email: [email protected]
or www.mercycollege.melb.catholic.edu.au.
Anche quest’anno durante la Quaresima ci saranno degli incontri di preghiera e riflessioni preparate dalla
Diocesi per tutte le parrochie. Siete invitati di partecipare il Martedi’ prima della Santa Messa.
SANTA MARIA COLLEGE ANNUAL REUNION
VIA CRUCIS
Tutti i Venerdi’ della Quaresima, con inizio alle ore 6.30pm, in chiesa, ci sara’ la Via Crucis in Italiano e
Inglese.
Date: Sunday, February 25, 2007 Time: 2.00pm – 5.00pm. At Santa Maria College (Polding Centre)
For: Past students and staff of the College. No RSVP required. For further information please call
the Reception Staff on 9489 7644.
ITALIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES
BAPTISMS
Congratulations to Alexandra Franin daughter of Marko and Dianna, Zac McMahon son of Stephen and
Nicole and Lilian Peck daughter of Gregory and Stephanie, who will be baptised today. We welcome them
with joy into our parish community and assure the families of our prayerful best wishes on this happy
occasion.
Commencing at St Matthew’s Primary School, 97 William St, Fawkner North, Saturday 24th February
and will run from 1.30 to 4.00pm. Students from Grade Prep to Year 12 are welcome. The Tuition
Fee for the year is $110 per student, VCE classes included. For further information please phone
9898 4707.